A Lesson in Love (Swedish: En lektion i kärlek) is a 1954 Swedish comedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film is about the marriage of a gynecologist named David and his wife Marianne. The film's score was composed by Dag Wirén.
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Cast
Eva Dahlbeck as Marianne Erneman
Gunnar Björnstrand as David Erneman
Yvonne Lombard as Susanne Verin
Harriet Andersson as Nix
Åke Grönberg as Carl-Adam
Olof Winnerstrand as Professor Henrik Erneman
Renée Björling as Svea Erneman
John Elfström as Sam
Birgitte Reimer as Lise
Dagmar Ebbesen as Nurse Lisa
Sigge Fürst as Vicar
Reception
A Lesson in Love received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 100% approval (based on six critics), with an average rating of 7.2/10.
On the film's U.S. release in 1960, Bosley Crowther opined in The New York Times, that its subject "...is the complexity of love...It is a subject that Mr. Bergman expanded in his subsequent "Smiles of a Summer Night," with more wit and satiric implication. But, for a warm-up, he got off nicely here...Mr. Bergman plays around with it in such a clever and thought-provoking way that the emotional dilemma implicit in it has humor, wisdom and charm...And, as in all of his pictures, Mr. Bergman has used a cast that seems to act with inspired understanding—which means, of course, sympathy with him."